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* OUR REF: (23) in SCR 49/2/1162/89(92)
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Ms. Deborah Barnes Jones,
Hong Kong Department,
Foreign & Commonwealth Office, United Kingdom.
Dear Ms. Jones,
1
URGENT
GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT
LOWER ALBERT ROAD
HONG KONG
4 November 1992
with
your facsimile message of 29 October
Hon. Tim Rt.
Renton's
British Nationality Selection Scheme
I
refer to
of the copy a
the sensitive on the
service class
The position
letter of 22
(SSC) of the
locally
October. I have classified this reply because it touches on the policy British Nationality Scheme (BNS).
2.
of the British Council's enlisted staff under the BNS has been the subject of our correspondence with Mr Tom Buchanan, Director of the British I have also Council in Hong Kong over the past 12 months. explained our
Buchanan at a meeting in May this year. The case has just been reassessed again after Mr Buchanan brought it up at a meeting with the Governor in September.
to Mr position
Arrangements for BC staff under the BNS
3.
group
under a
The locally enlisted staff of the BC as a group do not meet the criteria agreed by the Home Office for inclusion in the SSC of the BNS. They may however apply individually under the general occupational class (GOC) and compete with other applicants in the same occupational points system set out in the British Nationality (Hong Kong) (Selection Scheme) Order 1990. Alternatively, they may apply under the SSC of their own accord and their cases will be
whether they are able assessed on the strength of demonstrate vulnerability.
4.
to
In response to the BC's repeated requests and in view of its special role in Hong Kong, the former Governor agreed that the applications of its locally enlisted staff He decided in should be treated as generously as possible. August 1991 that up to 12 of its staff whose applications are unsuccessful in their original choice of class may
place in the SSC if they fulfill the following
guaranteed criteria:-
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